Hi mark,

On 03 Dec 13 11:08, mark lewis wrote to Tom De Puysseleyr:
  about: "fmail not packing crash-netmail?":

 TDP>> Does binkd support unpacked messages? I would assume it doesn't
 TDP>> care which type file is specified in the .flo file, it just
 TDP>> transfers it to the other side. If that's the case, then the
 TDP>> reason would be within fmail...

 ml> yes, binkd does and you are right in that it doesn't care what's in the
 ml> files... raw PKTs in BSO format have an ?UT extension... CUT are crash,
 ml> DUT are direct, i think FUT is normal non-crash non-direct but would have
 ml> to dig out the documentation from the original binkleyterm... when these
 ml> ?UT files are sent to the remote, they are renamed in transmission to at
 ml> least have an extension of PKT so the other side will recognize them...

 ml> on the local BSO side, they could also be named PKT but then a ?LO file is
 ml> required to point to them for transmission...

That looks about right... ;)

The full specification is here:

http://ftsc.org/docs/fsp-1034.001

(If anyone is interested)

Wilfred.

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